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“Après moi, le déluge” (“After me, the flood”), a phrase largely attributed to the King of France Louis XV (1710-1774), and at times Madame de Pompadour (1712-1764), have come to epitomise the psychology of those who asserts that nothing that happens after their disappearance matters to them. This expression may seem irreverent in the context of a chain of troubling economic events in 2009. As the world acknowledges the winding down of hubristic culture of excess, the impetus for 72 […]